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ICM tech provides boost to ethanol producers

ICM, a US ethanol dryer specialist, has announced that its Selective Milling Technology (SMT) has allowed ethanol producers to boost their production.

In a statement, the company said that it’s SMT has shifted from a new technology to a proven process at approximately 15% of the ethanol plants in the US and has allowed them to produce more than 300 million gallons of ethanol since the original installations. 

The SMT process produces an increase yield of over 45 million gallons per year of ethanol production as well as an increase of more than 30 million pounds per year of corn oil, ICM said.

At current values for ethanol and corn oil, the SMT process generates over $85 million of additional revenue annually for ICM SMT customers, according to the company.

In a statement, ICM said: “We continue to install SMT process in ethanol plants with expectations of four to five more installations this year.  In some cases, replacing competitive milling technologies that use colloid mills, which did not prove to be as effective as SMT.”

ICM’s technology, SMT frees more starch critical for enzyme conversion to sugar, the firm said.  The process of using energy to free more starch for enzyme conversion to sugar can involve breaking larger starch particles into smaller ones; or separating starch away from fiber, protein, or fats. 

According to ICM, SMT allows plants to maximise this added energy by targeting the particles that can benefit from it most.

ICM president Chris Mitchell said: “We continue to focus our efforts on developing solutions that deliver value-added product streams to the renewable energy industry. We believe our competitive advantage comes from providing our customers with technologies that deliver immediate returns for them coupled with our expanding platform technologies that we continue to launch.”

 





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